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Kingdom 

"Then  shall  the  King  say  unto  them  on  his 
lit  hand,  Come  ye  blessed  of  my  Father 
iheritthe  Kingdom  prepared  fo/  you  from  the 

»undation  of  the  world/* 


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LOS  GATOS,  CAL.,  August  10,  1910. 

This  book  was  first  published  in  sections  in  opposition 
to  a  prohibition  campaign  that  was;  beipg  carried  on  in 
Los  Gatos.  1  do  not  know  how  much  influence  k  ft  ad. 
Wine  is  now  bought,  sold  and  served  as  r  believe  it:  should 
be.  For  the  past  five  years  1  have  been  a  diligent  student 
of  the  Bible,  a  regular  church  attendant,  and  have  read 
from  four  religious  papers.  Yet  in  opposition  to  what  I 
have  heard  and  to  present  day  writings,  I  have  come  to 
the  conclusions  presented  in  this  book.  When  a  person 
says  anything  after  careful  preparation,  or  writes  after 
due  consideration,  it  is  provoking  to  be  thought  of  as  not 
believing  what  he  has  said.  I  do  believe  what  I  have 
written.  Actors,  hypocrites  and  liars  are  not  expected  to 
believe  what  they  say,  but  those  who  write  or  tell  of  the 
Gospel,  should  believe  what  they  say.  If  the  words  of 
Jesus  are  a  standard  of  Truth,  many  by  their  inconsistency 
and  lack  of  fidelity,  show  that  they  are  believing  a  mixture 
of  truth  and  error.  Now,  I  am  physically  sound.  About 
my  body  I  am  not  concerned.  But  is  my  mind  sound?  Am 
I  believing  the  truth  or  am  1  deluded?  Why  do  I/after 
reading  the  Scriptures,  come  to  conclusions  so  different 
from  anyone  else?  Why  do  I  stand  alone?  No  one  else 
believes  as  I  do.  Now,  something  is  wrong.  1  believe  I 
am  believing  the  truth  and  I  am  going  to  stand  by  it. 
Time  will  tell,  and  but  a  short  time,  too. 

Believe  me  sincere, 

H.  W.  FITCH. 


"That  which  is  born  of  the  flesh  is  flesh,  and  that 
which  is  born  of  the  Spirit  is  Spirit." 

"Except  a  man  be  born  again  he  cannot  see  the 
Kingdom  of  God." 

"Except  a  man  be  born  of  water  and  of  the  Spirit 
he  cannot  enter  into  the  Kingdom  of  God." 

"God  is  a  Spirit." 

Therefore  that  which  is  born  of  God  is  a  Spirit. 

"The  voice  said  cry  and  he  said,  What  shall  I  cry?" 

"All  flesh  is  grass  and  all  the  goodliness  thereof  is 
as  the  flower  of  the  field." 

"The  grass  withereth,  the  flower  fadeth,  but  the 
Word  of  our  God  shall  stand  forever." 

"Behold,  the  nations  are  as  a  drop  of  a  bucket. 
and  are  counted  as  the  small  dust  of  the  balance." 

"All  nations  before  him  are  as  nothing,  and  they 
are  counted  to  him  less  than  nothing,  and  vanity." 


Qtyr  iKtnsonm  of 


I  counsel  thee  to  buy  of  me  gold  tried  in  the  fire, 
that  thou  mayest  be  rich ;  and  white  raiment,  that  thou 
mayest  be  clothed,  and  that  the  shame  of  thy  naked- 
ness do  not  appear;  and  annoint  thine  eyes  with  eye- 
salve  that  thou  mayest  see.  Rev.  3:18. 

Jesus  Christ  was  the  faithful  and  true  Witness  of 
the  truth  of  the  Word  of  God.  It  was  his  desire  to  do 
all  that  was  written  in  the  L,aw  of  Moses,  the  Psalms 
and  the  Prophets  that  the  Messiah  as  the  Son  of  Man 
was  to  do.  We  following  in  his  footsteps  should  as 
the  opportunity  is  given  us  be  witnesses  to  the  truth 
of  that  Word.  "Ye  are  my  witnesses  saith  the  Lord 
that  I  am  God."  A  witness  in  court  before  the  Judge 
and  the  Jury  states  the  truth,  he  does  not  argue  the 
truth  of  his  statements  or  urge  the  Jury  to  believe  him. 
So  here  before  God  as  the  Judge,  and  my  readers  as  the 
Jury  I  am  not  arguing  the  truth  of  what  I  say,  or  urg- 
ing anyone  to  believe  what  I  say.  If  what  I  say  is  true 
and  it  is  believed  God  will  manifest  his  power  in  the 
lives  of  those  who  believe  it. 

If  I  state  the  truth  and  it  is  not  believed,  God  will 
not  manifest  his  power  because  of  unbelief.  If  what  I 
say  is  a  lie  and  it  is  believed  God  will  not  manifest  his 
power  in  our  lives.  He  does  not  manifest  his  power  in 
the  lives  of  those  who  tell  and  believe  a  lie  and  the 
power  manifested  by  those  who  do  tell  and  believe  a 
lie  is  the  power  of  him  who  is  father  of  lies. 


930237 


In  ordinary  use  the  word  day  means  a  limited 
period  of  time  or  a  period  of  sunlight.  In  the  Bible  it 
is  used  to  mean  that  and  also  an  unlimited  period  of 
time  and  a  perpetual  period  of  Light.  With  the  Lord 
a  thousand  years  are  but  as  yesterday,  and  as  a  watch 
in  the  night.  Ps.  90 :4. 

A  watch  in  the  night  would  be  the  6th  part  of  a 
day,  so  that  one  of  the  days  of  creation  as  a  period  of 
time  might  stand  for  one  year  or  6,000  years. 

The  Bible  is  a  book  of  contrasts,  for  example  as 
high  as  heaven  is  above  the  earth,  light  and  darkness, 
day  and  night.  God  said :  "Let  there  be  light  and 
there  was  light:  and  God  saw  the  light  that  it  was 
good :  and  God  divided  the  light  from  the  darkness  and 
God  called  the  light  Day,  and  the  darkness  he  called 
Night."  Gen.  1 :3,4,5.  Paul  says  in  1  Thes.  5  :5,  "Ye 
are  all  the  children  of  light  and  the  children  of  the  day. 
we  are  not  of  the  night  nor  of  darkness." 

From  the  words  of  Paul  I  am  led  to  believe  there 
was  a  place,  on  the  earth  called  Day.  There  was  God's 
House,  there  was  the  Hill  of  the  Lord.  There  it  was 
called  Paradise  or  Eden. 

There  was  the  illumination  of  the  Glory  of  God. 
There  was  no  need  of  the  light  of  the  sun  or  of  the 
light  of  the  moon.  Outside  of  the  place  called  Day,  it 
was  called  Night.  God  caused  the  earth  to  bring  forth 
grass  and  trees.  He  created  the  fishes  of  the  seas  and 
the  fowls  of  the  air  and  every  living  creature  where  it 
was  called  Night. 

One  of  the  grand-divisions  of  the  earth,  Africa,  has 


come  down  to  us  through  the  ages  known  as  the  Dark 
Continent.  Egypt  was  there  and  was  known  as  the 
black  land,  and  to  be  in  Egypt  was  to  be  in  darkness 
away  from  God. 

On  that  continent  we  find  a  humanity  ignorant, 
uncivilized  and  black-skinned,  typical  of  their  condi- 
tion. That  Darwin  in  his  theory  of  evolution  was 
right  in  regard  to  this  race  I  have  no  doubt.  That  they 
have  lived  on  this  earth  for  the  past  fifty  thousand 
years,  I  would  admit.  That  they  formed  governments, 
and  kingdoms  and  that  the  Pyramids  of  Egypt  were 
built  ten  thousand  years  B.  C.,  I  will  concede. 

But  in  the  course  of  time  God  said,  "Let  us  make 
man  in  our  image  after  our  likeness,"  and  there  was 
just  as  great  a  contrast  between  the  humanity  that  God 
created  where  it  was  Day  and  the  humanity  that  was 
created  where  it  was  Night  as  there  was  in  the  places 
where  they  were  created. 

God  made  a  covenant  of  life  with  the  humanity 
that  he  created  in  his  own  likeness.  But  through  un- 
belief that  humanity  did  not  keep  that  covenant,  and 
forfeited  the  right  to  live  and  to  live  where  it  was  Day. 
So  were  thrust  out  into  the  Night.  If  any  one  wants 
to  know  where  Cain  got  his  wife,  why  he  married  a 
black  woman.  And  so  we  have  these  two  distinct  cre- 
ations of  humanity  on  the  earth.  The  children  of  the 
Night  and  the  children  of  the  Day.  The  brown  race 
or  the  yellow  race  is  some  mixture  of  the  white  and 
the  black  race.  Now  after  the  white  race  was  cast  out 
into  the  Night  they  were  no  better  in  God's  sight  than 


the  black  race.  So  all  flesh  became  one  blood.  But 
God  gave  them  the  promise  of  another  Word  that  if 
they  would  believe  that  Word  they  might  live.  Now 
an  unbelieving  white  man  is  no  better  than  an  unbe- 
lieving black  man  in  God's  sight.  A  converted  black 
man  is  just  as  good  as  a  converted  white  man  in  Gods 
sight. 

I  have  nothing  against  the  black  man.  He  may 
be  physically  my  superior;  he  may  be  my  equal  ment- 
ally, but  he  is  not  my  equal  in  color.  A  white  man  who 
cherishes  any  love  for  the  children  he  might  have 
would  not  marry  a  black  woman  because  of  the 
disadvantage  it  would  be  to  his  children.  God  has  had 
a  wonderful  love  for  the  white  race.  He  has  been  to 
work  all  these  years  reconciling  a  people  to  himself 
He  has  been  kind  to  the  black  race  for  He  will  receive 
them  just  as  quickly  as  the  white  race  and  has  sent  out 
missionaries  to  all  parts  of  the  world  for  their  salva 
tion. 

The  Lord  said  unto  Abraham,  "I  am  the  Lord  that 
brought  thee  out  of  Ur  of  the  Chaldees,  to  give  thee 
this  land  to  inherit  it."  And  to  Jacob  he  said,  "The 
land  whereon  thou  liest  to  thee  will  I  give  it  and  to 
thy  seed."  Yet  Abraham  did  not  possess  it,  and  Jacob 
died  in  Egypt,  and  the  land  that  God  promised  them 
was  where  it  once  had  been  Day.  Now  by  faith  we  are 
the  seed  of  Abraham.  We  are  the  house  of  Jacob,  the 
Israel  of  God.  By  that  covenant  God  intends  to  restore 
the  Day  here  on  the  earth.  And  to  have  an  inheritance 
there  will  be  to  have  an  inheritance  in  the  Kingdom  of 


5 

God  "And  in  the  days  of  these  kings  shall  the  God  of 
heaven  set  up  a  Kingdom  which  shall  never  be  de- 
stroyed," Dan.  2:44.  Now  God  seems  to  be  doing  at 
present  a  strange  work,  a  strange  act. 

There  are  people  who  study  the  Bible  who  believe 
that  the  best  gift  of  God  is  physical  health  and  comfort. 
Others  believe  the  great  purpose  of  God  is  to  make  the 
present  evil  world  a  better  and  more  comfortable 
place  to  live  in.  They  pray  and  work  for  it  and  ap- 
parently get  what  they  pray  for. 

But  to  ask  for  and  receive  a  vain  thing  is  not  an 
evidence  of  Divine  favor.  Jesus  said,  "Seek  ye  first 
the  Kingdom  of  God  and  his  rightousness."  His 
charge  to  St.  Paul  making  him  an  Apostle  to  the  Gen- 
tiles was,  "I  send  thee  to  open  their  eyes  and  to  turn 
them  from  darkness  to  light  and  from  the  power  of 
Satan  unto  God,  that  they  may  receive  forgiveness  of 
sin  and  inheritance  among  them  which  are  sanctified 
by  faith  that  is  in  me,"  Acts  26:18.  And  he  said  again. 
"Except  a  man  be  born  again  he  cannot  see  the  King- 
dom of  God."  And  that  is  true.  For  worldly  people 
do  not  now  see  the  Kingdom  of  God.  We  pray  "Thy 
Kingdom  come,"  and  come  it  will.  We  will  yet  get 
what  we  ask  for.  That  Kingdom  is  described  in  the 
Psalms,  in  Isaiah,  Jeremiah  and  Ezekiel  and  the  House 
of  that  Kingdom  is  described  in  Revelation  21. 

When  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  comes  with  all  his 
saints  and  God  gathers  his  chosen  people  from  the 
East  and  the  West,  "He  will  say  to  the  North,  give  up. 
and  to  the  South,  keep  not  back,  bring  my  sons  from 


far,  and  my  daughters  from  the  ends  of  the  earth ;  even 
every  one  that  is  called  by  my  name,"  Is.  43  :6.  To  be 
left  here  in  this  part  of  the  earth  where  we  are  now 
will  be  to  be  left  in  outer  Darkness,  where  there  will  be 
weeping  and  gnashing  of  teeth.  For  with  God's  Spirit 
withdrawn  that  strives  with  man,  every  man's  hand 
will  be  lifted  against  his  neighbor.  For  an  account  of 
the  coming  of  the  Day  of  the  Lord  read  the  words  of 
the  Prophet  Joel.  Salvation  is  the  greatest  and  highest 
gift  of  Christ,  and  the  cry  will  yet  be  heard,  What 
shall  we  do  to  be  saved?  and  the  answer  from  the 
Thione  of  Heaven  is,  Only  believe,  the  Words  of  Jesus 
Christ. 


And  he  had  in  his  right  hand  seven  stars. — Rev. 
1:16. 

Remember  the  days  of  old,  consider  the  years  of 
many  generations. — Deut.  32 :7. 

"Known  unto  God  are  all  his  works  from  the  be- 
ginning of  the  world."  "For  though  thy  people  Israel 
be  as  the  sands  of  the  sea  yet  a  remnants  of  them  shall 
return;  the  consumption  decreed  shall  overflow  with 
righteousness." — Isaiah  10 :22. 

God  is  the  great  Architect.  He  plans  his  work 
and  his  plans  are  carried  out  regardless  of  the  conse- 
quences upon  man.  If  man  will  yield  to  God's  plan  and 
work  with  God  and  be  his  servant  it  will  fare  well  with 
that  man.  But  woe  to  that  man  that  will  not  submit  to 
the  ways  of  God.  God  is  a  Great  King  and  he  is  ter- 
rible. It  is  interesting  to  observe  the  progress  of  the 
plans  of  Providence  and  the  growth  of  evil.  If  the 
growth  of  evil  in  this  world  is  the  plan  of  God  then  it  is 
interesting  to  note  its  growth.  The  Christian  dispen- 
sation is  a  development  from  the  Mosaic  dispensation. 
Then  God  was  calling  and  choosing  a  people  for  the 
world  to  come.  God  is  doing  the  same  now.  As  that 
dispensation  came  to  end  so  will  this. 

Jesus  said,  "This  Gospel  of  the  Kingdom  shall  be 


8 

preached  in  all  the  world  for  a  witness  unto  all  nations 
and  then  shall  the  end  come." — Matt.  24:14.  In  the 
days  of  Noah  the  earth  was  corrupt  and  full  of  vio- 
lence. Jesus  said,  "And  as  it  was  in  the  days  of  Noah 
*  *  *  Even  thus  shall  it  be  in  the  day  when  the 
Son  of  Man  is  revealed."  St.  Paul  says,  "In  the  latter 
times  some  shall  depart  from  the  faith,  giving  heed  to 
seducing  spirits,  and  doctrines  of  devils.  Speaking  lies 
in  hypocrisy,  having  their  conscience  seared  with  a  hot 
iron." — 1  Timothy  4:1,  2.  The  Apostle  Peter  says 
"That  there  shall  come  in  the  last  days  scoffers  walk- 
ing after  their  own  lusts  and  saying  Where  is  the 
promise  of  his  coming  for  since  the  fathers  fell  asleep 
all  things  continue  as  they  were  from  the  beginning  of 
the  creation."— 2  Peter  3  :3,  4. 

In  the  Mosaic  dispensation  God  said,  "Behold  I 
send  an  angel  before  thee  to  keep  thee  in  the  way,  and 
to  bring  thee  into  the  place  which  I  have  prepared.  Be 
ware  of  him  and  obey  his  voice ;  provoke  him  not  for 
he  will  not  pardon  your  transgressions  for  my  name  is 
in  him.  But  if  thou  shall  indeed  obey  his  voice  and  do 
all  I  speak  then  I  will  be  an  enemy  unto  thine  enemies 
and  an  adversary  unto  thine  adversaries." — Ex.  23  :20. 
21,  22.  Such  were  Samuel,  Elijah,  Isaiah,  Jeremiah 
Zechariah  and.  the  Prophets.  They  did  not  forgive 
sins ;  only  God  does  that.  Has  not  God  had  the  same 
care  for  his  people  in  this  dispensation?  The  Mosaic 
dispensation  was  literal;  this  dispensation  is  Spiritual. 


There  seems  to  be  a  literal  and  a  spiritual  fulfillment  of 
most  prophecies.  In  the  second  and  third  chapters  of 
Revelations  we  have  a  prophecy  for  the  Christian 
Church.  I  believe  it  was  literally  fulfilled.  To  be 
spiritually  fulfilled  it  would  symbolize  seven  periods 
of  time  in  the  Christian  dispensation.  "The  seven  stars 
are  the  seven  angels  of  the  seven  churches." 

St.  Paul  was  called  to  be  an  apostle.  He  was  not 
one  of  the  twelve  for  there  were  twelve  without  him. 
But  he  might  have  been  the  first  of  the  seven — the 
angel  of  the  Church  of  Ephesus.  The  Apostolic 
Church  and  his  epistle  to  the  Ephesians  seems  to  be 
the  most  spiritual  of  all  his  letters.  That  period  may 
have  extended  for  more  than  100  years. 

We  have  in  Justin  Martyr  one  who  seems  to  have 
fulfilled  the  work  of  the  angel  of  the  church  of  Smyr- 
na. He  sets  forth  clearly  the  doctrine  of  the  Logos — 
the  divinity  of  Christ.  He  says,  God  (who  had  from 
eternity  wisdom  in  himself)  before  his  works  and  as 
the  beginning  of  the  same  begat  of  himself  by  an  act 
of  his  will,  a  Son  who  was  another  God  numerically 
distinct  and  yet  not  separate  from  himself.  By  this 
Son  God  created  the  worlds,  revealed  himself  in  the 
Prophets  and  in  the  Scriptures,  appeared  unto  the  Pa- 
triarchs and  others.  At  last  this  Son  was  miraculously 
born  of  a  virgin  and  as  a  Saviour  lived  and  died  in  our 
behalf.  Justin  Martyr  was  born  a  heathen,  received  a 
heathen  education,  died  a  martyr  in  166.  He  surely 
was  one  who  overcame. 


IO 

St.  Augustine  was  born  in  Numidia,  North  Africa,  in 
354.  When  we  consider  his  early  life,  his  conversion 
to  Christianity  and  what  he  had  to  contend  with  and 
what  a  great  work  he  did  for  the  cause  of  Christ  we 
can  not  help  saying  he  was  an  overcomer. 

Read  in  Bryan's  World-Famous  Orations,  Vol. 
VII — St.  Augustine  on  the  Lord's  Prayer  and  think 
about  it.  I  would  chose  him  to  be  the  angel  of  the 
church  of  Pergamos.  There  was  an  apostacy  that  was 
according  to  God's  plan.  We  do  not  know  why  he 
planned  it  so.  Then  it  was  vice,  ignorance  and  super- 
stition reigned.  But  out  of  that  Egyptian  darkness. 
God  raised  up  deliverers,  prominent  among  whom  was 
John  Calvin.  He  seems  to  have  accomplished  the  work 
of  the  angel  of  the  church  of  Thyatira.  His  "Law  and 
Logic"  though  not  perfect  has  had  power  over  the  na- 
tions and  if  the  nations  of  the  world  are  to  be  ruled 
with  a  rod  of  iron  John  Calvin  can  do  it. 

John  Bunyan  was  in  the  gutter  of  filth  and  vice 
but  he  overcame  and  put  on  robes  of  white  and  wrote 
a  book  that  is  preaching  yet  and  many  followed  him  to 
the  Saviour  and  their  names  have  been  confessed  be- 
fore God.  It  seems  to  me,  he,  more  than  any  one  else. 
did  the  work  of  the  angel  of  the  church  of  Sardis. 

The  Philadelphia  church,  the  period  of  brotherly 
love,  the  great  missionary  church  in  which  the  gospel 
has  gone  to  the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth.  Who 
was  the  angel  of  that  church?  I  would  say  David 
Brainerd.  It  was  his  example  of  going  out  and  con- 


II 

verting  the  savages,  reforming  them  by  the  power  of 
preaching  divine  truth,  that  started  the  great  mission- 
ary movement.  Brainerd  says,  "I  have  found  that 
close  address,  and  solemn  application  of  divine  truth 
to  the  conscience  strikes  at  the  root  of  all  vice ;  while 
smooth  and  plausible  harangues  upon  moral  virtues 
and  external  duties  at  best  are  like  to  do  no  more  than 
lop  off  the  branches  of  corruption  while  the  root  of  all 
vice  remains  untouched.  *  *  *  That  the  reforma- 
tion, the  sobriety,  and  the  external  compliance  with 
the  rules  and  duties  of  Christianity  appearing  among 
my  people,  are  not  the  effect  of  any  mere  doctrinal  in- 
struction, or  merely  rational  view  of  the  beauty  of  mo- 
rality, but  from  the  internal  power  and  influence 
which  the  soul-humbling  doctrines  of  grace  have  had 
upon  their  hearts."  And  of  Brainerd  we  can  say,  "By 
faith,  he  being  dead,  yet  speaketh." 

These  great  characters  that  I  have  named  all  be- 
lieved in  the  divine  Sovereignty  of  God.  That  God 
was  good,  holy,  just  and  wise  and  perfect  in  all  his 
ways.  The  earth  is  the  Lord's  and  he  can  do  with  it  as 
he  pleases.  When  God  makes  af  covenant  he  keeps  it. 
The  angel  of  the  church  of  the  Laodiceans  must  be  a 
descendant  of  David.  See  2  Samuel.  7  Ps.  132.  Jer. 
33.  Zech.  12:7,  8.  He  will  be  the  one  God  chooses  to 
do  the  work,  deliver  the  message  and  he  will  follow 
the  instructions  given  him.  "For  his  God  doth  instruct 
him  to  discretion  and  doth  teach  him."  To  be  one  of 
those  seven  in  the  Kingdom  of  God  is  the  greatest  gift 
conceivable.  St.  Paul  says,  "For  he  will  finish  the 


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work  and  cut  it  short  in  righteousness  because  a  short 
work  will  the  Lord  make  upon  the  earth." — Rom. 
9:28.  Again,  "For  yet  a  little  while  and  he  that  shall 
come  will  come  and  will  not  tarry.  Now  the  just  shall 
live  by  faith." 

A  false  prophecy  is  one  that  does  not  come  to  pass. 
A  false  prophet  is  one  that  makes  a  false  prophecy. 
Jesus  Christ  was  the  true  Prophet  of  God.  Deut, 
18:18,  22.  The  glory  of  Christianity  has  been  that  it 
made  people  strong  to  do  right  and  not  to  do  wrong 
when  it  was  easy  to  do  wrong.  Now  people  are  say- 
ing WE  must  make  it  easy  to  do  right  and  hard  to  do 
wrong.  Read  Ezekiel  13.  A  false  prophecy  is  a  lie. 
Some  are  saying  this  gospel  of  the  Kingdom  will  be, 
preached  in  the  world  until  every  human  being  be- 
comes a  Christian.  That  is  a  false  prophecy,  therefore 
a  lie.  Of  the  New  Jerusalem  it  is  said,  "And  there 
shall  in  no  wise  enter  into  it  anything  that  defileth. 
neither  whatsoever  that  worketh  abomination  or  mak- 
eth  a  lie,  but  they  which  are  written  in  the  Lamb's 
book  of  life."— Rev.  21 :27. 

Wherever  divine  truths  are  received  there  vice 
and  crime  disappear.  Where  the  Word  of  God  is  not 
there  vice  and  crime  abound.  Sin  is  the  rejection  of 
divine  truth.  It  is  a  vice,  a  pleasure,  it  is  a  sin  of  the 
soul  and  the  soul  that  sinneth  it  shall  die.  If  it  were 
not  for  God's  determination  to  save  some,  who  would 
be  saved?  Not  one.  For  who  at  the  present  time  is 
not  rejecting  divine  truths?  I  know  what  people  be- 


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lieve  by  what  they  are  trying  to  do.  God  was  wise  and 
just  when  he  made  faith  the  terms  of  salvation  and  he 
will  not  come  down  from  those  terms.  Again,  only 
believe,  believe  only  the  words  and  sayings  of  Jesus 
Christ.  God's  last  call  to  an  unbelieving,  faithless, 
drunken  (but  not  with  wine),  staggering  (but  not 
with  strong  drink)  world  is,  "Behold,  I  stand  at  the 
door  and  knock ;  if  any  man  HEAR  MY  VOICE  and 
open  the  door  I  will  come  in  to  him  and  will  sup  with 
him  and  he  with  me."  Who  will  hear  that  voice,  who 
will  God  be  gracious  to,  who  will  find  grace  in  his 
sight?  "By  grace  ye  are  saved."  Those  who  believe 
the  words  and  sayings  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  "He 
that  believeth  and  is  baptized  shall  be  saved;  but  he 
that  believeth  not  shall  be  condemned."  "And  to 
whom  sware  he  that  they  should  not  enter  into  his 
rest,  but  to  them  that  believed  not." 

David  knew  God's  plan  so  he  wrote  us  the  80th 
psalm  as  a  prayer.  Not  to  be  a  Christian  is  to  be  wick- 
ed. There  is  no  peace,  saith  my  God,  to  the  wicked, 
If  you  are  a  Christian,  I  am  only  seeking  your  peace 
and  happiness.  If  you  are  not,  I  can  truthfully  say 
that  you  cannot  control  your  own  fears.  Fear  and. 
fright,  regret  and  remorse,  shame  and  sorrow,  are  not 
physical  torments,  but  I  would  rather  be  delivered 
from  them  than  to  be  delivered  from  being  burned  at 
the  stake.  William  Cowper,  in  1774,  wrote  the  fol- 
lowing beautiful  lines.  He  wrote  them  for  me,  so  now 
they  are  mine.  I  present  them  to  you : 


God  moves  in  a  mysterious  way 

His  wonders  to  perform; 
He  plants  his  footsteps  in  the  sea, 

And  rides  upon  the  storm. 

Deep  in  unfathomable  mines 

Of   never-failing   skill 
He  treasures  up  His  bright  designs, 

And  works  His  sovereign  will. 

Ye  fearful  saints,  fresh  courage  take, 
The  clouds  ye  so  much  dread 

Are  big  with  mercy  and  shall  break 
In  blessings  on  thy  head. 

Judge  not  the  Lord  by  feeble  sense 
But  trust   Him   for   His  grace; 

Behind  a  frowning  providence 
He  hides  a  smiling  face. 

His  purposes  will  ripen  fast, 

Unfolding  every  hour; 
The  bud  may  have  a  bitter  taste, 

But   sweet   will   be   the   flower. 

Blind  unbelief  is  sure  to  err, 
And  scan  His  works  in  vain; 

God  is  His  own  Interpreter, 
And  He  will  make  it  plain. 


ani 


"I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  soul  and  body  be 
preserved  blameless  unto  the  coming  of  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ."—  1  Thes.  5  :23. 

"For  the  Word  of  God  is  quick,  and  powerful,  and 
sharper  than  any  two-edged  sword,  piercing  even  to 
the  dividing  asunder  of  soul  and  Spirit."  —  Heb.  4:12. 

To  one  who  studies  God's  plans  and  who  rever- 
ently believes  in  the  fulfillment  of  Revelation,  the 
present  age  is  one  of  wonderful  interest.  There  has 
been  much  written  abount  Drunkeness,  Psychic  Phe- 
nomena, Subconscious  mind,  etc.,  etc.  Now  a  drunk- 
ard is  an  over  drinker,  just  as  a  glutton  is  an  over  eat- 
er. I  have  been  among  drunken  people,  have  drank 
with  them  and  have  observed  the  effect  of  strong  drink 
When  I  was  quite  a  young  man,  and  had  been  away 
from  home  about  two  years,  I  was  working  in  a  mill  in 
this  state  about  three  miles  from  a  town.  Among  the 
thirty  or  more  men  that  worked  there,  was  one  young 
man,  about  my  own  age,  healthy,  well  built  and  good 
looking.  He  and  I  were  friends.  There  was  no  liquor 
sold  about  the  mill.  One  Saturday  evening  four  of  us 
went  into  town.  When  we  arrived  in  town  we  all  went 
into  a  saloon  to  have  a  drink.  Before  we  came  out  we 
each  of  us  had  about  four  drinks  of  whisky.  We  went 
around  town  and  did  what  trading  we  had  to  do.  It 
was  then  about  ten  o'clock,  my  friend  and  I  were  going 


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back  to  the  mill.  The  other  fellows  were  going  to  stay 
longer ;  they  said  "let's  have  another  drink,"  so  we  had 
a  couple  more  drinks  of  whisky.  Now  I  was  not  afraid 
of  becoming  intoxicated  for  though  there  had  been  oc- 
casions when  I  had  been  intemperate,  I  never  became 
intoxicated.  I  always  knew  what  I  was  doing,  and 
what  I  was  saying,  and  could  always  say  and  do  what  I 
wanted  to.  But  when  we  came  to  go  home  this  friend 
of  mine  suddenly  thought  he  saw  an  enemy  out  in  the 
street  and  he  wanted  to  go  out  and  fight.  There  wasn't 
any  one  in  the  street;  he  just  thought  there  was.  I 
saw  that  he  was  intoxicated  so  I  took  hold  of  his  arm 
and  said,  come  on  home,  he  came  along,  he  could  walk 
all  right,  and  he  kept  up  a  continual  cursing  of  that  fel- 
low that  wasn't  there.  If  he  had  been  there,  I  have  no 
doubt  he  would  have  gone  for  him.  A  couple  of  times 
on  the  way  home  I  let  go  of  him  to  see  what  he  would 
do,  and  he  started  off  the  side  of  the  road.  He  did  not 
know  where  he  was.  When  we  got  home  he  seemed  to 
come  to  himself,  undressed,  and  went  to  bed.  The 
next  day  I  asked  him  if  he  knew  how  he  got  home. 
He  said  he  did  not  remember  anything  after  that  last 
drink. 

Now  what  was  the  matter  with  that  fellow.  Some 
will  say  he  was  under  the  influence  of  liquor.  No. 
That  which  we  eat  or  drink  only  affects  us,  it  may  nour- 
ish, stimulate,  or  stupefy.  Now  this  man's  mind  had 
evidently  become  stupefied  by  the  liquor.  But  as  his 
mind  became  stupefied  there  came  to  the  surface  an- 
other mind  that  he  possessed  that  he  did  not  know  any- 


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thing  about,  or  any  one  else  know  that  he  possessed, 
and  controlled  his  words  and  actions,  and  this  subcon- 
scious mind  would  be  manifested  when  he  used  strong 
drink.  Now  I  believe  this  man  was  possessed  of  an 
unclean  spirit  or  demon. 

It  vvas  not  very  long  after  this  that  we  separated 
and  I  did  not  hear  about  him  for  about  two  years, 
when  I  heard  that  he  had  got  into  a  fight,  stabbed  and 
nearly  killed  another  man,  and  that  he  was  intoxicated 
at  the  time,  but  when  he  became  sober  he  knew  noth- 
ing about  it.  If  he  had  not  been  possessed  of  an  evil 
spirit  he  would  not  have  become  intoxicated,  he  might 
have  become  stupefied  and  laid  down  and  gone  to 
sleep.  The  crime  should  be  charged  to  the  evil  spirit 
or  demon  in  the  man  and  not  to  the  strong  drink. 

I  have  worked  on  the  wine  press  and  have  made 
wine,  and  have  worked  in  the  still,  and  made  strong 
drink.  They  made  wine  and  strong  drink  in  Palestine. 
By  suspending  wine  in  the  skin  of  an  animal  in  a  warm 
place  the  skin  allows  much  of  the  water  to  pass 
through  and  evaporates  but  little  of  the  alcohol.  When 
we  consider  that  the  grapes  from  one  acre  of  ground 
will  sometimes  produce  over  1500  gallons  of  wine,  they 
must  have  produced  and  consumed  a  great  amount  of 
wine  in  that  country.  But  in  the  1400  years  that  the 
Jews  occupied  that  country  there  was  no  law  that  in- 
terfered with  the  making  and  using  of  wine  and  strong 
drink.  It  was  true  that  many  became  drunkards. 
\Yhen  Jesus  Christ  was  on  the  earth  there  must  have 
been  a  good  many  drunkards,  yet  he  apparently  never 


IS 

came  in  contact  with  an  intoxicated  person,  yet  a  part 
of  his  work  was  to  cast  out  devils.  Speaking  to  the 
Pharisees  and  lawyers  Jesus  said,  "Jonn  the  Baptist 
came  neither  eating  bread  or  drinking  wine  and  ye  say 
he  hath  a  devil.  The  Son  of  Man  is  come  eating  and 
drinking  and  ye  say,  Behold  a  gluttonous  man  and  a 
wine  bibber."  Why  did  the  Pharisees  say  John  the 
Baptist  had  a  devil?  Because  he  would  not  drink  any 
wine.  It  was  the  will  of  God  that  he  should  not.  Luke 
1 :15.  He  was  afraid  to  drink,  they  would  say  it  would 
show  that  he  had  a  devil.  They  could  not  say  that  of 
Jesus,  however,  for  he  did  drink  wine,  but  it  would  not 
intoxicate  him.  It  was  the  will  of  God  that  he  should 
drink.  Gen.  49:11,  12.  On  the  day  of  Pentecost  why 
did  they  say  "These  men  are  full  of  new  wine  ?"  Why 
they  don't  know  what  they  are  saying.  Perhaps  they 
did  not  understand  all  they  said.  But  the  Spirit  they 
possessed  was  a  Spirit  of  truth  and  love,  and  was  from 
above,  just  the  contrast  to  what  a  devil  would  be. 

Socrates  was  a  heathen  and  an  idolater,  yet  he 
was  a  man  that  obeyed  his  conscience  to  a  remarkable 
degree  and  lived  a  simple  and  temperate  life.  But  upon 
some  religious  festival  he  would  drink  more  wine  than 
any  one  else,  yet  would  not  become  intoxicated.  Evi- 
dently he  was  not  possessed  of  a  devil.  Hard  has 
been  the  fate  of  a  people  that  would  reject  God  ana  his 
offer  of  Salvation.  Those  people  in  Western  Asia  had 
the  gospel  preached  and  churches  established  by  the 
great  Apostle  St.  Paul.  On  the  whole  it  was  rejected 
by  them.  They  preferred  their  Philosophy,  the  wor- 


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shiping  of  idols,  sacrificing  to  devils,  and  in  time  they 
got  a  devil  to  worship.  Any  one  who  has  read  a  sketch 
of  Mohammed  can  very  easily  believe  that  he  was  in- 
spired, and  if  he  was  and  Rev.  9:1-11  is  a  prophecy  of 
him,  the  spirit  in  him  was  the  angel  of  the  bottomless 
pit,  and  if  that  is  true,  to  make  Mohammedanism  a 
success  or  to  maintain  government  among  them  he 
must  put  away  wine  and  strong  drink,  which  was  the 
very  thing  he  proceeded  to  do.  They  could  not  stand 
it.  They  would  destroy  themselves.  So  these  people, 
the  flower  of  the  Caucasian  race,  were  brought  down 
to  the  level  of  the  savages  of  North  America,  the  South 
Sea  Islands  or  of  Africa,  for  liquor  will  intoxicate  all  of 
these  people.  It  will  stupefy  their  minds  and  the 
demon  will  have  control  of  them. 

The  Puritans  did  not  teach  temperance  by  prohibi- 
tion or  total  abstinence,  but  as  the  fruit  of  the  Spirit. 
There  are  not  many  communities  that  will  license  a 
public  gambling  house,  because  it  is  a  place  where  they 
make  an  unnatural  use  of  money.  I  never  heard  of 
people  petitioning  the  government  to  stop  the  issuing 
of  money,  because  some  make  an  unnatural  use  of  it 
Some  communities  will  not  license  public  drinking 
houses,  for  it  is  a  place  where  they  make  an  unnatural 
use  of  strong  drink.  But  to  deprive  a  man  of  the  pri- 
vilege of  having  wine  or  beer  with  his  meals  is  not  lib- 
erty. A  man  has  a  moral  right  to  plant  a  vineyard  to 
make  wine,  and  to  sell  the  same,  and  to  teach  that  the 
temperate  use  of  wine  is  unhealthy  and  debilitating  is 
to  teach  a  lie.  The  use  of  wine  and  strong  drink  should 


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be  controlled  by  the  soul  or  intellect  and  not  by  the  lust 
of  the  body.    See  Deut.  14:26. 

In  Luke  11 :14  there  is  an  account  of  Jesus  casting 
out  a  devil,  and  it  was  dumb.  When  the  devil  was 
gone  out  the  man  spoke.  I  have  seen  men  in  that  con- 
dition, but  we  say  they  are  in  a  state  of  intoxication 
Remove  the  demon  and  the  man  is  in  his  normal  state 
of  mind.  A  drunken  man  may  reel  and  stumble  in  his 
walk,  yet  his  mind  remains  clear.  Such  a  man  does  not 
commit  crime  any  more  when  he  is  drunken  than  when 
he  is  sober,  but  a  crime  may  be  committed  on  him,  for 
he  is  not  in  a  condition  to  defend  himself. 

In  the  fall  of  1907,  without  any  warning  or  appar- 
ent cause  people  began  to  fear,  to  doubt  and  to  lose 
faith  in  the  financial  institutions  of  this  country,  and 
the  result  was  a  financial  panic  or  shock,  and  the  insti- 
tutions that  were  not  sound  went  down. 

No  human  being  can  start  or  stop  a  panic  of  that 
kind.  Let  us  say,  God  did  these  things.  Now  if  the 
Mohammedans  should  have  a  religious  panic  it  could 
be  caused  by  a  fear  that  they  were  not  going  to  enter 
Paradise  or  by  a  desire  to  do  the  will  of  Mohammed 
their  prophet.  A  Christian  to  them  is  an  infidel,  and  to 
kill  an  infidel  is  an  assurance  of  an  entrance  into  Para- 
dise and  it  is  doing  the  will  of  Mohammed,  for  his  will 
is  that  his  religion  should  be  set  up  by  the  sword.  The 
Mohammedans  live  and  move  and  have  their  being  by 
the  power  of  God  just  as  much  as  we  do,  and  God  can 
put  into  their  hearts  to  do  the  will  of  Mohammed 
They  have  just  had  a  revival  over  there,  for  they  have 


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recently  put  to  death  thirty  thousand  Christians,  and  if 
that  revival  continues  they  will  kill  more  Christians. 
Just  as  God  can  put  into  the  heart  of  those  people  to 
do  the  will  of  Mohammed,  so  God  can  put  into  the 
heart  of  his  people  to  do  his  will.  "By  this  shall  all 
men  know  that  ye  are  my  disciples,  if  ye  have  love  one 
for  another."  If  God  should  put  his  Spirit  into  his 
people  of  the  two  great  divisions  of  Christianity,  the 
Catholic  and  Protestant  churches,  they  will  have  love 
one  for  another.  They  will  love  their  enemies,  do  good 
to  them  that  persecute  them.  They  will  believe  the 
words  of  Jesus  Christ.  They  will  not  kill  their  enemies 
by  the  sword,  but  would  rather  be  killed  by  the  sword. 
And  hardest  of  all,  they  would  be  willing  that  God's 
will  should  be  done.  If  that  should  come  to  pass  no 
human  being  could  say  he  brought  it  about,  he  could 
only  say  "this  is  the  Lord's  doing  and  it  is  marvelous 
in  our  eyes."  Yet  it  is  just  what  God  has  promised  to 
do.  We  have  his  Word  for  it  in  the  37th  of  Ezekiel. 
When  we  have  reached  that  condition,  mentioned  in 
the  last  clause  of  the  second  verse,  and  I  think  we  have 
reached  it,  God  will  begin  his  work.  God  has  always 
done  what  he  has  promised  to  do,  and  I  am  fully  per- 
suaded that  he  is  able  to  do  anything  he  has  promised. 
Thus  saith  the  Lord  God,  I  do  not  this  for  your  sake,  O 
house  of  Israel,  but  for  my  holy  name's  sake.  If  it  is 
the  will  of  God  that  the  nations  of  the  world  should 
drink  wine,  and  they  refuse,  He  will  say  "Ye  shall  cer- 
tainly drink."  Jer.  25  :28.  If  it  is  the  will  of  God  that 
I  should  drink  wine  I  will  drink  it,  whether  it  is  bene- 


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ficial  or  detrimental  to  my  health  matters  not.  I  had 
certainly  rather  drink  the  wine  that  is  the  fruit  of  the 
vine  than  to  drink  from  the  wine  cup  of  his  fury. 

It  is  written,  "Cursed  be  he  that  doeth  the  work  of 
the  Lord  deceitfully."  So  if  you  say  anything  about 
wine  and  strong  drink  you  had  better  tell  the  truth 
about  it.  It  is  written,  "All  thy  works  shall  praise 
thee." 

It  seems  like  an  act  of  mercy  to  take  liquor  away 
from  a  drunkard.  But  if  God  says  to  the  drunkard 
"Let  him  take  hold  of  my  strength  that  he  make  peace 
with  me  and  he  shall  make  peace  with  me."  Isa.  27:5. 
Why  we  had  better  let  the  liquor  alone.  "Not  by 
might,  nor  by  power  but  by  my  Spirit,  saith  the  Lord 
of  hosts." 


iarkntaa 


And  this  is  the  condemnation,  that  light  is  come 
into  the  world,  and  men  loved  darkness  rather  than 
light.—  John  3:19. 

Men  have  loved  darkness  rather  than  light.  In 
this  assertion  light  stands  for  truth  and  the  word  dark- 
ness means  falsehood.  It  does  not  seem  to  anyone  that 
they  prefer  falsehood  to  the  truth,  still  it  is  true  that 
one  small  cunningly  devised  falsehood  will  influence  a 
person  furher  than  a  number  of  plain  and  forcible  ar- 
guments in  favor  of  Revelation.  A  God  according  to 
the  Bible  they  do  not  love  ;  one  conformed  to  their  own 
imagination  they  do  not  hate.  My  grandfather  and 
my  great-grandfather  were  Presbyterian  ministers  and 
according  to  geneology  I  am  a  descendant  of  Elder 
William  Brewster  of  the  Mayflower.  Probably  that  is 
why  I  have  convictions  of  my  own.  Probably  that  is 
why  I  do  my  own  thinking,  and  a  person  who  does 
that  must  expect  to  be  obnoxious  to  some  people  and 
offensive  to  others.  But  the  truth  is  the  strongest 
thing  in  the  world,  and  the  man  that  will  not  submit  to 
it  will  perish.  Jesus  Christ  was  identified  with  his 
word.  He  was  the  Word  of  God.  You  can  not  sepa- 
rate him  from  his  words.  "He  that  rejecteth  me  and 
receiveth  not  my  words  hath  one  that  judgeth  him  : 
the  word  that  I  have  spoken,  the  same  shall  judge  him 
in  the  last  day."  —  John  12:48.  "And  whosoever  shall 


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fall  on  this  stone  shall  be  broken,  but  on  whomsoever 
it  shall  fall,  it  will  grind  him  to  powder." — Matt  21  :44 

He  spake,  saying,  "All  power  is  given  unto  me  in 
heaven  and  in  earth."  "No  man  can  come  to  me  ex- 
cept the  Father  which  hath  sent  me  draw  him."  "Enter 
ye  in  at  the  straight  gate."  "Because  straight  is  the 
gate  and  narrow  is  the  way  which  leadeth  unto  life,  and 
few  there  be  that  find  it,"  "Not  everyone  that  say- 
eth  unto  me,  Lord,  Lord,  shall  enter  into  the  Kingdom 
of  Heaven ;  but  he  that  doeth  the  will  of  my  Father 
which  is  in  Heaven." 

I  can  show  my  fidelity  to  Jesus  Christ  by  insisting 
that  these  words  and  sayings  are  true  and  should  be 
believed,  and  my  unworthiness  to  be  called  a  Christian 
would  be  shown  by  trying  to  prove  they  are  not  true. 
The  human  or  finite  will  is  that  faculty  of  the  mind  by 
which  we  make  a  choice  and  adhere  to  that  choice.  It 
is  a  gift  of  God.  Memory  is  that  faculty  of  the  mind 
by  which  ideas  or  notions  of  things  past  are  real  and 
present  to  the  individual  consciousness.  It  is  a  gift  of 
God,  and  that  gift  of  God  is  not  to  all  alike.  A  horse 
has  a  will,  a  dog  has  a  memory,  therefore  has  a  mind. 
A  church  building  is  called  a  sanctuary  or  holy  place, 
In  past  days  Mohammedanism  was  the  worst  enemy 
Christianity  ever  had.  During  the  reign  of  Omar,  A 
D.  634-644,  the  Saracens  reduced  3600  cities  and  vil- 
lages, demolished  4000  Christian  churches  and  erected 
1500  Mohammedan  mosques.  On  the  site  of  the  tem- 
ple at  Jerusalem  stands  the  mosque  of  Omar.  He  was 
literally  an  abomination  of  desolation. — Dan.  11:36. 


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Let  us  contrast  the  words  of  Jesus  Christ  with  the 
words  of  Mohammed  for  the  sake  of  making  a  choice 
Jesus  said,  "Put  up  again  thy  sword  into  its  place  for 
all  they  that  take  the  cword  shall  perish  with  the 
sword." — Matt.  26:52.  Mohammed  said,  Koran  (trans- 
lation by  Sale)  page  355.  "Verily  if  God  pleased  he 
could  take  vengeance  on  them  without  your  assistance 
but  he  commands  you  to  fight  his  battles  that  he  may 
prove  the  one  of  you  by  the  other ;  and  as  to  those 
who  fight  in  defence  of  God's  true  religion  God  will 
not  suffer  their  works  to  perish.  He  will  guide  and 
will  dispose  their  hearts  aright  and  he  will  lead  them 
into  paradise  of  which  he  hath  told  them.  O,  true  be- 
liever, if  ye  assist  God  by  fighting  for  his  religion  he 
will  assist  you  against  your  enemies ;  and  he  will  set 
your  feet  fast ;  but  as  for  the  infidels  let  them  perish." 

Just  to  the  extent  that  the  faith  of  Christianity  has 
been  set  up  by  force  or  violence  just  to  that  extent  was 
the  words  of  Mohammed  hearkened  to  instead  of  the 
words  of  Jesus  Christ.  "It  pleased  God  by  the  foolish- 
ness of  preaching  to  save  them  that  believe." 

Xow,  in  regard  to  the  use  of  wine,  I  must  make  a 
choice.  I  must  exercise  the  mind.  I  might  use  wine  to 
excess  and  be  a  drunkard ;  I  might  use  wine  and  be 
temperate,  or  I  might  be  a  total  abstainer.  I  must 
make  a  choice.  I  choose  to  follow  the  example  of  Jesus 
Christ.  He  was  neither  a  drunkard  nor  a  total  ab- 
stainer. God  chooses  the  hard  things.  Jer.  32:17.  If 
I  walk  with  one  class  of  worldly  people,  they  urge  me 
to  drink  to  excess,  and  I  offend  them  if  I  do  not;  and 


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there  is  another  class  scarcely  less  worldly  that  I  of- 
fend if  I  am  not  a  total  abstainer.  If  I  maintain  my 
fidelity  to  Jesus  Christ  I  must  oppose  one  party  as 
much  as  the  other  for  the  following  reasons:  Jesus 
Christ  taught  by  example  as  well  as  by  precept.  He 
said,  "No  man  also  having  drunk  old  wine  straight- 
way desireth  new,  for  he  saith  the  old  is  better."  Luke 
5  :39.  That  is  true.  He  speaks  of  wine  as  if  it  were  a 
blessing.  Mohammed  says  (Koran,  page  23),  "They 
will  ask  thee  concerning  wine  and  lots.  Answer,  In 
both  there  is  great  sin  and  also  some  things  of  use 
unto  men,  but  their  sinfulness  is  greater  than  their 
use."  If  I  see  the  example  and  words  of  Jesus  Christ 
set  aside  and  the  example  and  words  of  Mohammed  in 
their  place,  I  will  point  to  Matthew  24:15  "When  ye 
therefore  shall  see  the  abomination  of  desolation  spok- 
en of  by  Daniel  the  prophet  stand  in  the  holy  place 
(whoso  readeth  let  him  understand)."  When  I  see  the 
example  of  Jesus  Christ  repudiated,  his  words  rejected, 
and  the  example  and  words  of  Mohammed  extolled  and 
praised  from  the  Sanctuary,  I  am  going  to  look  for 
trouble.  For  Dan.  12:1,  "There  shall  be  a  time  of 
trouble  such  as  never  was  since  there  was  a  nation 
even  to  that  same  time :  and  at  that  time  thy  people 
shall  be  delivered  every  one  that  shall  be  found  written 
in  the  book." 

"In  interpreting  Scripture  the  viewpoint  is  all-im- 
partant."  By  the  words  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  Prophets 
and  the  Apostles  this  Dispensation  will  end  in  disaster 
and  final  catastrophe.  The  Socialist  will  tell  you  he 


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expects  a  revolution ;  that  there  will  be  a  great  loss  of 
life  and  property,  but  up  out  of  those  ruins  will  rise  a 
new  nation  based  upon  equality.  But  that  will  not  be 
the  Kingdom  of  God  for  in  the  Kingdom  of  God  there 
are  some  that  are  the  least  and  some  that  are  great,  but 
to  be  the  least  is  far  better  than  to  be  a  king  in  this 
present  world. 

There  is  another  contrast  between  the  teaching  of 
Jesus  and  Mohammed  that  I  will  mention.  Jesus 
Christ  said,  "Have  ye  not  read  that  he  which  made 
them  at  the  beginning  made  them  male  and  female  and 
said  For  this  cause  shall  a  man  leave  father  and  mother 
and  shall  cleave  unto  his  wife  and  they  twain  shall  be 
one  flesh." — Matt.  19:4,  5.  Mohammed  said  (Koran, 
page  53),  "Take  in  marriage  such  other  woman  as 
please  you,  two  or  three  or  four  and  not  more."  Any 
person  or  organization  that  would  advocate  polygamy 
would  be  under  the  power  of  the  angel  of  the  bottom- 
less pit.  Now,  to  the  minds  of  some,  one  of  the  ways 
to  prevent  a  revolution  would  be  by  the  introduction 
of  polygamy.  And  as  the  least  of  two  evils  they  would 
choose  the  least. 

We  hear  a  good  deal  about  good  citizenship.  As 
if  it  was  a  sin  not  to  obey  the  laws  of  the  land,  no  mat- 
ter what  those  laws  were.  For  diosbeying  an  act  of 
Parliament,  John  Rogers,  in  1555,  was  burned  at  the 
stake.  Did  God  impute  that  disobedience  as  a  sin? 
For  disobeying  a  civil  law,  John  Bunyan  was  impris- 
oned for  nearly  13  years  in  Bedford  jail.  Was  his  dis- 
obedience a  sin?  In  1860,  good,  praying  people  in  this 


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country,  contrary  to  law,  helped  escaped  slaves  to  gain 
their  liberty.  St.  Paul  would  not  have  done  so.  Was 
their  disregard  of  civil  law  imputed  as  sin?  Calvin's 
opinion  was,  Obey  in  the  Lord.  A  man  has  the  God- 
given  right  to  sell  the  product  of  the  soil  he  tills,  and 
wine  is  the  natural  product  of  the  soil.  A  man  has  a 
God-given  right  to  drink  wine  with  his  meals  whether 
he  eats  in  a  hotel  or  in  his  own  home.  Will  God  im- 
pute it  a  sin  if  he  violates  a  civil  law  that  would  de- 
prive him  of  that  privilege.  I  say  that  a  law  that  casts 
a  reflection  on  the  conduct  and  life  of  Jesus  Christ  is 
an  abomination  to  God.  And  such  a  law  is  odious  to 
any  man  that  has  that  love  of  liberty  that  made  this 
country  possible  and  then  made  it  an  independent  na- 
tion. It  is  a  darkened  mind  that  can  not  discern  be- 
tween a  man  that  sells  and  buys  wine  and  has  it  on  his 
table,  and  a  man  that  sells  and  buys  human  beings  and 
holds  them  in  bondage. 

Martin  Luther  said,  "1  rejoice  exceedingly  to  see 
the  Gospel  this  day,  as  of  old,  a  cause  of  disturbance 
and  disagreement.  It  is  the  character  and  destiny  of 
God's  word."  "I  came  not  to  send  peace  unto  the 
earth  but  a  sword,"  said  Jesus  Christ.  "God  is  wonder- 
ful and  awful  in  his  counsels.  Let  us  have  a  care,  lest 
in  our  efforts  to  arrest  discords,  we  be  bound  to  fight 
against  the  holy  Word  of  God  and  bring  down  upon 
our  heads  a  frightful  deluge  of  inextricable  dangers, 
present  disaster,  and  everlasting  desolation." 

Isaiah  says,  "As  for  my  people  children  are  their 
oppressors  and  women  rule  over  them.  O,  my  people. 


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they  which  lead  thee  cause  thee  to  err  and  destroy  the, 
way  of  thy  paths." — Isa.  3:12.  Jeremiah  says,  "For 
my  people  have  committed  two  evils,  they  have  for- 
saken me,  the  fountain  of  living  waters,  and  hewed 
them  out  cisterns,  broken  cisterns  that  can  hold  no 
water.  Yet  I  had  planted  thee  a  noble  vine  wholly  a 
right  seed:  how  then  art.thou  turned  into  the  degener- 
ate plant  of  a  strange  vine  unto  me." — Jer.  2:13,  21. 

Will  God  desert  his  people.  Hear  the  word  of  the 
Lord,  O,  ye  nations  and  declare  it  in  the  isles  afar  off. 
and  say  He  that  scattereth  Israel  will  gather  him  and 
ke'ep  him  as  a  Shepherd  doth  his  flock.  For  the  Lord 
hath  redeemed  Jacob  and  ransomed  him  from  the  hand 
of  him  that  was  stronger  than  he." — Jer.  31 :10. 

Creation  is  so  great  an  act  of  power  that  we  can 
imagine  nothing  impossible  to  that  Being  who  has  per- 
formed it,  but  must  ascribe  to  him  infinite  power. 
Therefore  his  power  to  choose  is  infinite,  and  his  fidel- 
ity to  those  whom  he  has  chosen  is  infinite. — Deut. 
32:9,  14.  And  that  is  a  very  comforting  thought  to 
those  who  put  their  trust  in  the  Mighty  God  of  Jacob. 
It  is  absurd  to  think  that  a  Being  that  has  the  power  of 
creation,  has  not  the  power  to  control  the  objects  of  his 
creation.  I  can  convert  no  one  nor  can  I  convince  any 
one.  God  alone  does  that.  If  I  present  the  truth  such 
as  the  Lord  chooses  will  believe  it.  St.  Paul  says,  "One 
star  differeth  from  another  star  in  glory"  (or  illumina- 
tion). Astronomers  tell  us  about  the  planet  Mars  and 
photograph  it.  But  about  Venus,  a  larger  and  a  planet 
nearer  to  us,  they  say  nothing  about.  The  illumination 


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of  Mars  is  undoubtedly  the  reflection  of  the  sun.  But 
we  look  on  the  night  side  of  Venus  but  there  is  no 
night  there.  The  illumination  of  Venus  must  be  the 
glory  of  God,  and  where  that  is  it  is  Paradise. 

Venus  is  a  Day  Star.  Earth  is  in  darkness.  If 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  with  his  mighty  angels  should 
visit  that  world  he  would  be  very  welcome  and  greatly 
honored.  Perhaps  he  is  there  now.  If  he  is  we  may 
expect  manifestations  of  great  Spiritual  power  on  this 
planet.  Zech.  8th  chapter.  How  would  he  be  received 
in  this  world  at  the  present  time?  It  is  a  law  of  the 
mind  that  what  we  prophesy  we  in  time  look  for.  It 
was  one  of  the  commands  of  Jesus  Christ  that  his  peo- 
ple should  prophesy  and  look  for  his  return  to  this 
earth.  It  would  not  be  a  calamity  to  his  people. 

"The  whole  world  is  ripe  for  a  revival.  God  is 
marching  through  the  world  calling  out  a  people  for 
his  name.  God  will  certainly  prepare  a  people  for  his 
appearing  and  his  Kingdom.  They  will  not  be  drunk- 
ards. 1  Cor.  6:10.  Nor  will  they  be  total  abstainers. 
Isa.  25:6;  Matt.  22:11.  Before  you  declare  this  irrev- 
erent and  un-Scriptural  please  read  the  63rd  chapter 
of  Isaiah.  Those  prophets  of  old  were  true  servants  of 
God,  and  God  confirms  the  words  of  his  servants.  If 
it  had  not  been  for  those  words  of  Isaiah  I  had  not 
written  these. 


Hani,  ICou?  atrfi  Qfortlj 

Therefore  every  scribe  which  is  instructed  unto 
the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  is  like  unto  a  man  that  is  an 
householder,  which  bringeth  forth  out  of  his  treasure 
things  new  and  old. — Matt.  13  :52. 

Law,  Love  and  Truth  are  the  three  immutable  at- 
tributes of  God.  His  Law  is  perfect,  His  Love  is  in- 
finite, and  His  Word  is  the  Truth,  and  the  wisdom  of 
his  Word  is  wonderful.  One  of  the  commonest  forms 
of  disobeying  God's  Law  has  been  idolatry,  substitut- 
ing material  for  spiritual — worshiping  that  which  is 
not.  God,  who  is  everywhere  in  power,  and  nowhere 
in  appearance,  is  hard  to  be  conceived.  "No  man  hath 
seen  God  at  any  time." 

God's  Law  relative  to  idolatry  reads  as  follows: 
"Thou  shalt  not  make  unto  thee  any  graven  image  or 
any  likeness  of  any  thing  that  is  in  heaven  above  or 
that  is  in  the  earth  beneath."  Some  of  us  believe  the 
cause  of  disobedience  to  a  large  extent,  to  be  the  influ- 
ence of  Satan,  a  fallen  spirit.  If  Satan  could  be  put 
away  it  would  be  an  easy  matter  to  present  the  Gospel 
and  reconcile  humanity  to  God.  To  take  some  article 
and  say  that  it  is  the  cause  of  sin  and  put  that  article 
away  would  be  idolatry.  Wine  and  strong  drink  have 
been  in  use  since  the  days  of  Moses  but  it  has  only 
been  in  the  last  100  years  that  Satan  has  been  denied 
and  strong  drink  put  in  his  place.  To  worship  that 
which  is  not  is  idolatry.  If  Jesus  Christ  is  not  God 


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then  it  is  idolatry  to  worship  him.  Jesus  revealed  to 
us  that  there  are  two  Spirits  that  are  Gods.  The  Father 
and  His  Son,  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  numerically  dis- 
tinct yet  not  separate  from  the  Father.  The  Son  wor- 
ships the  Father,  and  all  the  heavenly  host  worships 
the  Son.  The  early  church  worshiped  the  Father  and 
the  Son  through  the  Holy  Ghost.  The  Spirit  they  re- 
ceived through  faith  in  Jesus  Christ.  That  Spirit  made 
God  their  Father  and  Jesus  Christ  their  elder  brother. 
For  God  is  the  Father  of  Spirits.  Heb.  12:9.  "See 
how  that  our  Creator  has  condescended  to  be  our 
Father."  (St.  Augustine).  The  Holy  Spirit  that 
moved  Jesus  and  spake  by  him  was  God.  The  body 
that  died  on  the  cross  was  God's  body.  St.  Paul  spake 
by  the  Holy  Ghost  but  that  did  not  make  St.  Paul  an- 
other God.  Of  the  early  Christians,  St.  Paul  said; 
"Know  ye  not  that  your  body  is  the  temple  of  the  Holy 
Ghost."  1  Cor.  6:19.  It  was  not  until  the  council  at 
Nice  325  A.  D.  that  it  was  declared  that  there  was  a 
third  God  by  the  name  of  Holy  Ghost  that  shared  with 
the  Father  and  the  Son  the  honor  of  being  worshipped. 
Now  if  Satan  can  have  his  work  ascribed  as  the  work 
of  the  Holy  Ghost  and  the  Holy  Ghost  worshipped  as 
a  third  God,  why  that  is  just  what  Satan  wants.  Mo- 
hammed declared  that  there  was  but  one  God ;  that 
God  never  begat  a  Son  that  was  another  God.  Jesus 
said  "Before  Abraham  was  I  am."  John  8:58,  and 
"God  is  a  Spirit :  and  they  that  worship  him  must  wor- 
ship him  in  Spirit  and  in  Truth."  John  4:24.  I  wor- 
ship the  Father  and  the  Son  I  know  of  no  more.  To 


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worship  that  which  is  not  is  idolatry.    No  idolater  has 
an  inheritance  in  the  Kingdom  of  God.    1  Cor.  6:9. 

No  law  is  above  its  Maker.  God  changes  time  and 
seasons.  Dan.  2:21.  And  Jesus  Christ  was  Lord  of 
the  Sabbath  day.  Matt.  12 :8.  If  it  is  the  will  of  God 
and  I  believe  it  is,  that  I  should  observe  the  Sabbath 
on  the  first  day  of  the  week,  I  am  going  to  do  it.  It 
is  not  written  that  no  Sabbath  breaker  shall  enter  the 
Kingdom  of  God,  so  I  am  going  to  say,  if  you  think  the 
fourth  commandment  is  not  good,  go  and  work  a  year 
with  only  one  day  off  a  month,  as  I  did,  and  you  will  be 
convinced  of  the  truth  of  the  words  "The  Sabbath  was 
made  for  man  and  not  man  for  the  Sabbath."  Mark 
2:27.  I  do  not  need  a  civil  law  to  make  me  keep  the 
Sabbath.  Violation  of  the  marriage  vow  is  sometimes 
a  violation  of  civil  law.  But  all  nations  tolerate  forni- 
cation. But  it  is  written  that  "No  adulterer  or  fornica- 
tor  shall  inherit  the  Kingdom  of  God."  Gal.  5  :21.  Cov- 
etousness  is  a  condition  not  an  act.  No  civil  law  can 
change  that  condition.  Yet  it  is  written  "No  covetous 
man  hath  any  inheritance  in  the  Kingdom  of  Christ 
and  of  God."  Eph.  5  :5. 

Moses,  the  man  by  whom  the  Law  was  given  and 
who  saw  the  awful  judgments  of  God,  and  felt  them, 
too,  loved  God  and  was  loved  and  honored  by  a  great 
people.  His  name  has  the  honor  of  being  associated 
with  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ  as  no  other  name  ever 
was  for  it  is  written,  "The  Law  was  given  by  Moses 
but  Grace  and  Truth  came  by  Jesus  Christ."  John 
1:17.  And  again,  "For  had  ye  believed  Moses  ye 


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would  have  believed  me,  for  he  wrote  of  me.  But  if  ye 
believe  not  his  writings  how  shall  ye  believe  my 
words."  John  5  :46,  47. 

Commonly  speaking,  love  is  to  have  an  affection 
for  that  which  we  esteem  and  admire,  whether  it  be  a 
person  or  things.  Je'sus  said,  "Greater  love  hath  no 
man  than  this  that  a  man  lay  down  his  life  for  his 
friends.  Ye  are  my  friends  if  ye  do  whatsoever  I  com- 
mand you."  Jesus  did  lay  down  his  life  for  his  friends. 
God's  love  is  commended  toward  us  in  that  while  we 
were  yet  sinners  Christ  died  for  us.  Rom.  5  :8.  In 
God's  sight  a  sinner  must  be1  repulsive.  Some  are 
claiming  God's  Love  supersedes  His  Justice  and  Truth. 
They  say,  "God  is  love,"  therefore  all  love  is  from  God. 
The  more  love  there  is  in  the  world  the  more  happiness 
there  will  be.  In  regard  to  Truth,  anything  which  they 
happen  to  say  is  the  Truth  if  it  breathes  of  Love.  They 
will  say  Christ  destroyed  sin,  sickness  and  sorrow  by 
love.  Suppose  a  man  has  a  wife  and  children.  He 
loves  them  and  provides  for  them  but  he  loves  other 
women,  too.  Is  that  right?  A  woman  says,  "I  love  my 
husband  but  I  love  other  men,  too,  and  want  to  be  loved 
by  them."  The  more  love  the  more  happiness.  God 
is  love.  All  love  is  from  God,  then  all  love  is  right. 
King  David  loved  Bath-sheba  as  much  as  any  man 
could  love  a  woman,  but  it  was  unlawful  love.  Herod 
loved  Herodias,  his  brother  Philip's  wife,  but  it  was 
unlawful  love.  The  doctrine  that  Love  supersedes  Law 
and  Truth  would  in  one  century  put  a  people  in  the 
moral  condition  of  Sodom  and  Gomorrah,  yet  they 


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would  call  themselves  Christians.  A  great  river  flow- 
ing within  its  banks  is  a  beautiful  sight,  but  if  it  over- 
flows those  banks  it  destroys  homes  and  property  and 
spreads  plague  and  pestilence.  A  Christian  will  confine 
his  affection  to  their  proper  objects.  If  it  is  the  will  of 
God  that  I  love  not  the  world  or  the  things  of  the 
wrorld  I  will  not  set  my  affections  on  them.  It  is  not 
hard  for  people  to  give  up  their  country  if  they  know 
of  a  better  one.  Witness  the  people  coming  to  this 
country. 

That  which  I  hear  and  am  not  deceived  by  believ- 
ing is  the  Truth.  That  which  I  hear  and  am  deceived 
by  believing  is  a  lie.  Satan  is  a  deceiver  nd  his  ability 
to  deceive  is  marvelous.  In  God's  sight  Satan  must  be 
vile  and  repulsive.  Jesus  identified  his  Word  as  the 
Truth.  Every  one  that  is  of  the  Truth  heareth  my 
voice.  John  18:37.  Words  that  state  what  has  taken 
place,  that  which  is  taking  place,  and  that  which  is  to 
take  place  is  the  Truth.  Jesus'  words  relative  to  the 
past,  present  and  future  must  be  the  Truth.  The  de- 
ceiver and  the  deceived  are  alike  in  God's  sight.  Eze 
14 :9-10.  I  will  not  be  deceived  by  believing  his  words. 
There  are  66  books  in  the  Bible.  Some  have  said  if 
they  were  to  be  deprived  of  all  the  books  but  one  they 
would  choose  to  retain  the  Gospel  of  St.  John.  Sup- 
pose the  Bible  to  be  composed  of  the  words  or  writings 
of  66  persons  and  I  was  to  be  deprived  of  all  the  Bible 
but  the  words  of  one  person  I  would  choose  to  retain 
the  words  of  Jesus  as  they  are  found  in  the  four  Gos- 
pels and  the  book  of  Revelation.  I  would  have  the 


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Truth.  I  will  center  my  belief  in  his  words.  Some 
will  say  they  can  not  be  understood.  Daniel  says,  "Yet 
made  we  not  our  prayer  that  we  might  understand  thy 
Truth."  Dan.  9:13.  Jesus'  words  in  the  Gospels  are 
simple.  A  little  child  can  receive  them.  Jesus  says. 
"Whosoever  shall  not  receive  the  Kingdom  of  God  as  a 
little  child,  he  shall  not  enter  therein."  Mark  10:15. 
The  words  of  Jesus  may  be  statements  such  as,  "Who- 
soever liveth  and  believeth  in  me  shall  never  die." 
John  11:26.  His  words  may  be  a  prophecy  such  as 
"The  Son  of  Man  shall  send  forth  his  angels  and  they 
shall  gather  out  of  his  Kingdom  all  things  that  offend 
and  them  which  do  iniquity :  And  shall  cast  them  into 
a  furnace  of  fire.  There  shall  be  wailing  and  gnashing 
of  teeth.  Then  shall  the  righteous  shine  forth  as  the 
sun  in  the  Kingdom  of  their  Father."  Matt.  13:41. 
His  words  might  be  a  promise,  such  as,  "I  say  unto 
thee,  Today  shalt  thou  be  with  me  in  Paradise."  Luke 
23  :43.  His  words  might  be  a  command,  such  as,  "Go 
ye  into  all  the  world  and  preach  the  Gospel  to  every 
creature."  Mark  16:15. 

The  words  of  Jesus  Christ  in  whatever  form  were 
from  the  greatest  mind  that  was  ever  on  this  planet  in 
human  form.  To  be  a  Christian  is  to  know,  believe, 
obey  and  act  in  accordance  with  the  words  of  Jesus 
Christ.  We  live  as  intellectual  and  physical  beings, 
mind  and  body.  If  I  eat  a  mixture  of  poison  and  pure 
food  the  result  will  be  a  physical  disorder.  There  is 
such  a  thing  as  a  mental  wreck  or  a  disordered  mind 
and  a  mixture  of  truth  and  error  may  produce  it.  It  is 


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a  sad  sight  to  go  through  a  hospital  and  see  the  sick 
and  suffering,  but  it  is  a  sadder  sight  to  go  through  an 
insane  asylum.  The  spiritual  mind  which  is  immortal 
is  of  infinitely  more  concern  than  the  body  which  is  but 
mortal.  St.  Paul  says,  "Bodily  exercise  profiteth  lit- 
tle, but  Godliness  is  profitable  to  all  things,  having 
promise  of  the  life  that  now  is  and  of  that  which  is  to 
come."  1  Tim.  4:8.  EHhu  says  "The  ear  trieth  words 
as  the  mouth  tasteth  meat."  Job  34:3.  The  evidence 
of  a  sound  mind  is  to  be  logical,  consistent,  to  use  good 
judgment  and  to  chose  what  is  good.  To  each  other 
the  words  of  drunkards  are  clever  and  brilliant.  To 
each  other  the  words  of  those  under  the  power  of  Satan 
are  profound  and  wise,  but  to  those  who  know  the 
Truth  they  are  foolishness.  It  was  of  such  that  Isaiah 
said  "They  are  drunken  but  not  with  wine ;  they  stag- 
ger but  not  with  strong  drink."  Isa.  29 :9. 

When  St.  Paul  came  to  Ephesus  he  found  certain 
disciples.  He  said  unto  them,  "Have  ye  received  the 
Holy  Ghost  since  ye  believed?"  They  said  unto  him. 
"We  have  not  so  much  as  heard  whether  there  be  any 
Holy  Ghost."  When  they  did  receive  the  Holy  Ghost 
they  spake  with  tongues  and  prophesied.  Acts  19:6. 
The  Holy  Ghost  to  them  was  a  sub-conscious  mind  and 
their  speaking  was  a  psychic  phenomena.  But  the 
Spirit  they  had  was  a  Spirit  of  Truth.  John  16:13. 
And  would  teach  them.  John  14:26.  There  was  also 
at  Ephesus  certain  persons  under  the  power  of  an  evil 
spirit  that  was  also  a  sub-conscious  mind.  Acts  19:15. 


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And  that  evil  spirit  gave  to  the  one  possessed  extraor- 
dinary physical  ability.    Acts  19:16. 

Luke  was  a  logical  as  well  as  a  chronological 
writer.  In  Luke  11:13  Jesus  says  "If  ye  then  being 
evil  know  how  to  give  good  gifts  unto  your  children, 
how  much  more  shall  your  heavenly  Father  give  the 
Holy  Spirit  to  them  that  ask  him."  Learn  what  the 
contrast  to  the  Holy  Spirit  would  be  by  reading  what 
follows  in  Luke  11. 

Jesus  and  St.  Paul  both  said  Satan's  power  to  de- 
ceive would  be  greater  as  time  continued.  For  Satan 
himself  is  transformed  into  an  angel  of  light.  2  Cor. 
11:14.  To  be  under  the  power  of  Satan  in  mind  or 
body  is  to  be  in  bondage.  To  be  under  the  power  of 
God  is  to  be  free.  St.  Paul's  work  was  to  turn  men 
from  the  power  of  Satan  unto  God.  Therefore  I  will 
say: 

Any  person  or  organization  that  would  by  the 
words  of  the  prophets  or  apostles  nullify  or  supersede 
the  words  of  Jesus  Christ  is  under  the  nower  of  Satan. 
Any  person  or  organization  that  would  by  their  own. 
words  nullify  or  supersede  the  words  of  Jesus  Criiist 
is  under  the  power  of  Satan.  Every  person  or  orga- 
nization that  condemns  any  word  or  act  or  the  conduct 
of  Jesus  Christ  upon  any  occasion  is  being  deceived 
and  is  deceiving  others.  For  Jesus  Christ  was  abso- 
lutely without  sin.  That  there  are  such  persons  and 
organizations  is  evident  to  any  one,  but  that  only  veri- 
fies the  words  of  Jesus  when  he  said,  "For  there  shall 


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arise  false  Christs  and  false  prophets  and  shall  show 
great  signs  and  wonders ;  insomuch  that  if  it  were  pos- 
sible they  shall  deceive  the  very  elect.  Behold  I  have 
told  you  before,  wherefore  if  they  shall  say  unto  you 
Behold  he  is  in  the  desert,  go  not  forth;  behold  he  is  in 
the  secret  chamber  believe  it  not.  For  as  the  lightning 
cometh  out  of  the  East  and  shineth  even  unto  the 
West,  so  shall  also  the  coming  of  the  Son  of  Man  be." 
Matt.  24:27.  "And  every  eye  shall  see  him  and  they 
also  which  pierced  him."  Rev.  1 :7.  To  be  rejected 
and  disbelieved,  sometimes  is  harder  to  bear  than  phy- 
sical pain. 

"So  far  as  regards  the  knowledge  of  Scripture,  God 
has  so  spread  it  out  before  us  that  no  former  age  was 
ever  so  highly  favored.  Still,  after  all,  there  is  scarcely 
a  particle  of  zeal.  When  men  manifest  such  indiffer- 
ence it  looks  as  if  they  were  bent  on  provoking  the 
vengeance  of  God."  (Calvin). 

St.  Paul,  to  whom  it  was  given  to  know  the  mys- 
teries of  the  Kingdom  of  God,  says :  "Examine  your- 
selves whether  you  be  in  the  faith ;  prove  your  own 
selves.  For  we  can  do  nothing  against  the  Truth  but 
for  the  Truth;  and  this  also  we  wish  even  your  per- 
fection." 2  Cor.  13:5,  8,  9.  I  can  say  with  the  Psalm- 
ist of  Israel,  "I  am  thy  servant;  give  me  understanding 
that  I  may  know  thy  testimonies.  It  is  time  for  thee. 
Lord,  to  work;  for  they  have  made  void  thy  law, 
Therefore  I  love  thy  commandments  above  gold,  yea 
above  fine  gold.  Therefore  I  esteem  all  thy  precepts 


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concerning  all  things   to  be  right;  and  I   hate  every 
false  way." 

"Not  by  might  nor  by    power  but  by  my     Spirit 
saith  the  Lord  of  Hosts." 


The  following  lines  by  Mrs.  Julia  Ward  Howe, 
doubtless  inspired  by  a  study  of  the  27th  chapter  of 
Isaiah,  should  be  used  and  claimed  as  a  spiritual  rather 
than  a  political  hymn : 

Mine  eyes  have  seen  the  glory  of  the  coming  of  the  Lord; 

He  is  tramping  out  the  vintage  where  the  grapes  of  wrath  are 

stored; 

He  has  loosed  the   fateful  lightning  of  His  terrible  quick  sword; 
His  truth   is   marching  on. 

I  have  read  a  fiery  gospel,  writ  in  burnished  rows  of  steel, 
"As  ye  deal  with  my  contemners,  so  with    you    my   grace    shall 

deal; 

Let  the  hero  born  of  woman  crush  the  serpent  with  his  heel," 
His   Day  is   marching  on. 

He  has  sounded  forth  the  trumpet  that  shall  never  call  retreat; 
He  is  sifting  out  the  hearts  of  men  bet  ore  His  judgment  seat; 
Oh!  be  swift  my  soul,  to  answer  Him!  be  jubilant,  my  feet; 
Our  God  is  marching  on. 

In  the  beauties  of  the  lilies  Christ  was  born  across  the  sea 
With  a  glory  in  His  bosom  that  transfigures   you   and   me; 
As  he  died  to  make  men  holy,  let  us  die  to  make  men  free, 
While  God  is  marching  on. 


Jerusalem  shall  be  trodden  down  of  the  Gentiles, 
until  the  times  of  the  Nations  be  fulfilled.  Vulgate. — 
Luke  21 :24. 

Then  said  I,  Whither  goest  thou?  And  he  said 
unto  me,  To  measure  Jerusalem  to  see  what  is  the 
breadth  thereof  and  what  is  the  length  thereof. — Zech. 
2:2. 

Nebuchadnezzar,  the  king,  said,  "Is  not  this  great 
Babylon  that  I  have  built  for  the  house  of  the  kingdom, 
by  the  might  of  my  power  and  for  the  honour  of  my 
majesty?"  To  build,  to  beautify,  to  take  or  to  rule 
over  a  great  city  has  been  the  desire  of  some  noble 
men.  Abraham  evidently  desired  to  be  the  founder  of 
a  city,  but  when  he  saw  the  condition  of  Sodom  and 
Gomorrah  and  their  destruction,  he  looked  for  a  city 
whose  builder  and  maker  is  God,  and  confessed  that  he 
was  a  stranger  and  pilgrim  on  the  earth.  David  who 
made  Jerusalem  a  city  and  the  capital  of  his  kingdom 
loved  the  city  and  the  people  within  her  walls.  A  city 
is  the  greatest  work  of  man  on  the  earth.  From  cities 
have  grown  great  kingdoms,  namely  Babylon  and 
Rome.  Within  these  cities  were  gathered  all  the 
wealth,  beauty,  art  and  science  of  a  kingdom.  No  king- 
dom would  be  complete  without  its  capital  city.  For  a 
king  people,  city  and  country  make  a  perfect  kingdom. 
People,  city  and  country,  without  a  king,  is  imperfect, 
a  people  scattered  and  dispersed.  Without  a  king,  city 


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or  country  might  be  said  to  be  in  captivity.  The  de- 
sire of  all  nations  is  to  be  perfect.  Have  we  ever  had  a 
perfect  nation?  We  have  had  Christian  nations,  but 
we  never  had  a  nation  of  Christians.  A  Kingdom  with 
Jesus  Christ  as  King,  Christians  as  the  people,  a  per- 
fect city  and  country,  would  make  the  desire  of  all  na- 
tions. 

Vigorous  attempts  have  been  made  to  locate  Eden. 
Moses  is  commended  to  us  as  a  reliable  writer.  In  Ar- 
menia four  rivers  have  their  source  near  together.  They 
are,  first,  the  Pison  that  empties  into  the  Black  Sea; 
the  second  is  the  Gihon  that  empties  into  the  Caspian ; 
the  name  of  the  third  river  is  the  Tigris,  and  the  fourth 
river  in  the  Euphrates.  The  last  two  join  and  empty 
into  the  Persian  Sea.  The  Lord  spake  unto  Abraham 
saying,  "Unto  thy  seed  have  I  given  this  land  from  the 
river  of  Egypt  unto  the  great  river  Euphrates." — Gen- 
esis 15  :18.  The  river  of  Egypt  empties  into  the  Med- 
iterranean from  the  Sinai  Peninsula.  The  territory  en- 
closed by  these  seas  would  be  about  1000  miles  square. 
"And  the  Lord  God  planted  a  garden  Eastward  in 
Eden  and  there  he  put 'the  man  whom  he  had  formed." 
And  the  garden  of  Eden  was  probably  near  the  junc- 
tion of  the  Euphrates  and  the  Tigris. 

St.  Paul  in  Heb.  4:3  speaks  of  a  place  where  God 
rested  or  as  God's  rest  that  was  finished  from  the  foun- 
dation of  the  world.  David  says  "For  the  Lord  hath 
chosen  Zion ;  he  hath  desired  it  for  his  habitation.  This 
is  my  rest  forever.  Here  will  I  dwell  for  I  have  desired 
it."— Ps.  132:13,  14.  And  the  New  Jerusalem  is  called 


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the  tabernacle  of  God. — Rev.  21 :3.  So  that  in  the 
midst  of  Eden  may  have  been  the  Golden  City  in  the 
midst  of  which  was  the  Throne  01  God,  the  river  of  the 
water  of  life,  and  the  tree  of  life — Eastward,  in  the  gar- 
den of  Eden  was  the  tree  of  the  knowledge  of  good  and 
evil.  Evidently  Adam  and  Eve  never  entered  within 
the  sacred  walls  of  the  Holy  City. 

Astronomers  tell  us  that  the  moon  is  void  of  water 
but  that  it  once  had  water  on  it  and  that  the  planet 
Mars  is  nearly  void  of  water.  God  said  unto  Xoah. 
"Behold  I,  even  I,  do  bring  a  flood  of  water  upon  the 
earth."  I  believe  God  could  have  by  the  power  of  his 
word  brought  the  water  of  those  two  spheres  upon  the 
earth.  Three-fourths  of  the  earth's  surface  is  covered 
by  water.  If  only  one-half  of  the  earth  was  covered 
by  water  God  could  still  water  the  ground.  See  Gen. 
2:6.  The  same  Power  that  could  bring  a  flood  could 
remove  the  Golden  City  to  some  other  planet  and  there 
the  Spirits  of  the  departed  believers  are  now  at  rest. 
That  same  Power  could  restore  the  waters  of  Noah 
and  could  bring  the  New  Jerusalem  here  to  the  earth 
for  it  is  part  of  the  work  of  creation.  If  the  Holy  City 
is  300  miles  square  and  was  to  be  situated  in  the  midst 
of  a  country  1000  miles  square,  and  all  of  the  redeemed 
were  formed  into  12  Kingdoms  outside  of  the  City,  and 
if  the  number  of  the  redeemed  equaled  the  present  pop- 
ulation of  the  earth  there  would  be  only  three  persons 
camped  on  each  acre. 

The  Dead  Sea  is  a  reminder  of  the  curse  of  God. 
It  is  written  "And  there  was  no  more  sea."  God  said 


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to  Abraham  "All  the  land  that  thou  seest  to  thee  will  I 
give  it  and  to  thy  se'ed  forever." — Gen.  13:15.  The 
sons  of  Abraham  are  controlling  that  country  today. 
For  it  is  written  that  Abraham  had  two  sons,  the  one 
by  a  bondmaid  and  the  other  by  a  free  woman. — Gal. 
4:22.  Neither,  because  they  are  the  seed  of  Abraham, 
are  they  all  children  but  in  Isaac  shall  thy  seed  be  call- 
ed.— Rom.  9:7.  And  again  it  is  written  "Jacob  have  I 
loved  but  Esau  have  I  hated." — Rom.  9:13.  The  Mo- 
hammedams  claim  to  be  the  descendants  or  Ishmael 
and  Esau  and  they  hate  Christians  who  are  the  seed  of 
Abraham  by  faith.  "For  ye  are  all  the  children  of  God 
by  faith  in  Christ  Jesus.  And  if  ye  be  Christ's  then  are 
ye  Abraham's  seed  and  heirs  according  to  the  promise." 
— Gal.  3  :26,  29.  Nevertheless,  what  sayeth  the  Scrip- 
ture :  cast  out  the  bondwoman  and  her  son,  for  the  son 
of  the  bondwoman  shall  not  be  heir  with  the  son  of 
the  freewoman. — Gal.  4:30. 

Jerusalem  was  captured  by  the  Mohammedans  in 
A.  D.  637.  Rev.  11.  Its  present  rulers  are  Turks.  At 
Hebron  on  the  tomb  of  Abraham  stands  a  Mosque  of 
Mohammed.  Two  hundred  and  fifty  million  of  Mo- 
hammedans would  sacrifice  their  lives  to  retain  that 
country.  It  would  be  wrong  for  Christians  to  try  to 
drive  them  out  or  to  repeat  the  crusades  of  the  Dark 
Ages.  Jesus  said  "The  Son  of  Man  shall  send  forth  his 
angels  and  they  shall  gather  out  of  his  Kingdom  all 
things  that  offend  and  them  that  do  iniquity." — Matt. 
13:41.  Most  of  us  believe  that  some  time  God  is  com- 
ing to  raise  the  dead  and  to  judge  the  world.  Those 


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who  do  not  I  am  not  concerned  about.  But  many  who 
do  believe  say  the  time  is  not  come  yet — the  time  that 
the  Kingdom  of  God  should  be  set  up.  I  say  it  is  time 
for  the  desire  of  all  nations.  The  political,  the  social 
and  the  spiritual  conditions  are  as  Christ  said  they 
would  be  at  his  appearing.  This  Gospel  has  been 
preached  to  all  nations.  Jesus  said  "There  shall  be 
signs  in  the  sun  and  in  the  moon  and  in  the  stars  and 
upon  the  earth  distress  of  nations  with  perplexity,  the 
sea  and  the  waves  roaring,  men's  hearts  failing  them 
for  fear,  and  for  looking  after  those  things  which  are 
coming  on  the  earth,  for  the  powers  of  heaven  shall 
be  shaken.  So  likewise  ye  when  ye  see  these  things 
come  to  pass  know  ye  that  the  Kingdom  of  God  is  nigh 
at  hand.'' — Luke-  21 :25,  26,  31.  What  do  we  wish  and 
pray  for  when  we  say  "Thy  Kingdom  come"?  If  it  is 
not  that  Jesus  should  come  and  we  would  have  a  King, 
a  people,  a  city  and  country  that  would  be  perfect 
''Abraham  believed  God  and  it  was  accounted  to  him 
for  righteousness." — Gal.  3  :6.  Therefore  if  I  believe 
God  it  will  be  accounted  unto  me  for  righteousness. 
To  believe  is  the  work  of  the  mind,  words  are  instru- 
ments of  the  mind,  hands  are  instruments  of  the  body. 
Mental  work  is  greater  than  physical.  The  President 
of  the  United  States  receives  say  $5000  per  month  for 
his  intellectual  ability  while  a  private  in  the  army  re- 
ceives $16  per  month  for  physical  work.  God  must  ap- 
preciate intellectual  ability.  A  man  who  is  so  dull  of 
intellect  that  he  can  not  comprehend  a  message  de- 
livered to  him  is  a  poor  servant.  God  does  not  favor 


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ignorance.  It  is  written,  "I  desired  the  knowledge  of 
God  more  than  burnt  offering."  "My  people  are  de- 
stroyed for  lack  of  knowledge.  It  is  a  people  of  no  un- 
derstanding, therefore  he  that  made  them  will  not  have 
mercy  on  them  and  he  that  formed  them  will  show 
them  no  favor." — Isa.  27:11. 

A  people  who  have  had  the  opportunity  to  know 
God  and  his  words  but  choose  not  to  know  must  be  con- 
temptible in  his  sight.  Jesus  said,  "For  by  thy  words 
thou  shalt  be  justified,  and  by  thy  words  thou  shalt  be 
condemned."  And  I  believe  it.  God's  servants  have 
been  men  of  great  minds  and  their  words  have  had 
great  influence.  Yet  God  gave  them  their  wisdom.  Ex. 
4:11.  A  man  who  believes  God;  will  do  and  say  things 
that  a  man  will  not  do  and  say  who  does  not  believe 
God,  for  a  man  who  believes  God  has  the  mind  of  God. 
A  man  whose  word  is  not  the  same  for  six  days  has 
not  much  of  a  mind.  With  God  1000  years  are  as  one 
day  so  that  the  words  of  God  given  4000  years  ago  are 
as  good  as  if  given  four  days  ago.  "For  who  hath 
known  the  mind  of  the  Lord  or  who  hath  been  his 
counsellor?" — Rom.  11 :34.  I  believe  the  words  of  God 
that  he  gave  to  his  servant  Moses  in  Deut.  32:1 :43,  and 
the  result  is  I  use  wine.  I  believe  the  words  of  God 
recorded  in  Isaiah,  2d  chapter,  and  the  result  this  book. 

If  a  man  by  the  instruments  of  the  mind  blas- 
phemes against  the  Holy  Ghost  he  commits  a  sin  that 
always  stands  against  him  though  he  enter  the  King- 
dom of  God.  For  a  man  to  say  the  words  spoken  by 
the  Holy  Ghost  are  not  true  is  to  dishonor  God  and  to 


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injure  humanity.  A  man  who  proclaims  the  words  of 
God  glorifies  God  and  benefits  humanity.  No  human 
being  was  ever  injured  by  being  told  the  truth.  The 
inability  of  some  people  to  believe  the  words  of  God  is 
very  evident.  They  read  and  memorize  the  words  of 
Jesus  Christ  yet  do  not  believe  them.  Truly  a  pitia- 
ble condition  of  the  mind.  It  can  be  accounted  for  in 
two  ways :  First,  ''The  natural  man  receiveth  not  the 
things  of  the  Spirit  of  God :  for  they  are  foolishness 
unto  him ;  neither  can  he  know  them,  because  they  are 
Spiritually  discerned." — 1  Cor.  2  :14.  Second,  there  are 
in  the  world  false  teachers  and  prophets,  deceitful 
workers,  ministers  of  Satan,  who  appear  as  angels  of 
light,  who  declare  that  God's  words  are  not  true  and 
need  not  be  believed.  They  are  as  Jude  says,  "Raging 
waves  of  the  sea,  foaming  out  their  own  shame,  wan- 
dering stars  to  whom  is  reserved  the  blackness  of  dark- 
ness forever."  Why  should  such  a  condition  exist  to- 
day with  the  words  of  God  spread  out  before  us  as 
never  before.  Why  is  there  so  much  interest  in  ma- 
terial and  temporal  things  and  so  little  interest  in  Spir- 
itual and  eternal  things?  In  Deut.  32:20  God  says  "I 
will  hide  my  face  from  them,  I  will  see  what  their  end 
shall  be  for  they  are  a  very  forward  generation ;  chil- 
dren in  whom  is  no  faith."  And  in  Rev.  8:1  we  read. 
"And  when  he  had  opened  the  seventh  seal  there  was 
silence  in  heaven  about  the  space  of  half  an  hour." 
And  there  is  just  where  we  are  now.  The  power  of 
Satan  is  so  great  that  if  God  did  not  interfere,  Satan 
would  deceive  every  one.  But  God  has  said  "I  also 


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will  keep  thee  from  the  hour  of  temptation  which  shall 
come  upon  all  the  world  to  try  them  that  dwell  upon 
the  earth." — Rev.  3:10.  So  that  the  present  condition 
is  according  to  God's  plan:  we  are  not  saved  by  our 
own  covenant  but  by  God's  promise  to  save  us.  The 
60th  Psalm  is  as  good  now  as  when  it  was  written.  To 
the  Egyptians  Moses  was  a  curse.  To  the  enemies  of 
Israel  David  was  a  cruel  tyrant.  To  the  prophets  of 
Baal  Elijah  was  a  monster.  To  the  heathen  of  Ephe- 
sus  St.  Paul  was  the  wickedest  man  that  ever  came  to 
that  city.  To  an  apostate  Church  John  Knox  was  a 
terror.  The  chief  duty  of  man  is  to  glorify  God  and 
enjoy  him  forever.  If  in  glorifying  God  I  am  a  benefit 
to  humanity  very  well.  If  in  glorifying  God  I  am 
spoken  of  as  an  enemy  of  humanity  and  in  league  with 
the  evil  one,  still  I  will  glorify  God.  Jesus  said,  "If 
they  have  called  the  master  of  the  house  Beelzebub 
how  much  more  shall  they  call  them  of  his  household. 
Fear  them  not  therefore."— Matt.  10:25. 

Pray  tell  me  of  what  use  is  the  Bible  unless  it  is 
read  and  what  is  the  good  of  reading  it  unless  it  is  be- 
lieved? Without  faith  it  is  impossible  to  please  God. 
Faith  is  the  substance  of  things  hoped  for.  Describe 
one  of  the  great  cities  of  the  nations  to-day  and  you 
will  say :  "They  have  become  the  habitation  of  devils 
and  the  hold  of  every  foul  spirit,  a  cage  of  every  un- 
clean and  hateful  bird." — Rev.  18:2.  Their  doom  is 
as  certain  as  was  Babylon's  the  night  of  Belshazzar's 
feast. 

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New  Jerusalem  is  as  sure  to  come  as  God's  word  is 
sure  to  be  fulfilled.  Jesus  Christ  proved  the  truth  of 
God's  word.  Thou  wilt  perform  the  truth  to  Jacob 
and  the  mercy  to  Abraham  which  thou  had  sworn  unto 
our  fathers  from  the  days  of  old." — Micah  7 :20. 

I  have  had  no  dream,  I  have  no  confidence  in  those 
who  say  they  have.  "For  the  prophet  that  hath  a 
dream  let  him  tell  a  dream ;  and  he  that  hath  my  word 
let  him  speak  my  word  faithfully.  What  is  the  chaff 
to  the  wheat,  saith  the  Lord."— jer.  23  :28.  "The  fool- 
ishness of  God  is  wiser  than  men,  and  the  weakness  of 
God  is  stronger  than  men." — 1  Cor.  1 :25.  I  have  en- 
deavored to  present  what  I  believe  the  will  of  the  Lord 
is.  If  what  I  have  said  is  reasonable,  logical,  consist- 
ent and  Scriptural  it  must  be  the  Truth  and  I  believe 
it  for  the  reason  stated  in  2  Thes.  2 :12.  If  I  am  wrong , 
in  the  words  of  Luther  ,  "I  implore  you  by  the  mer- 
cies of  God  to  prove  to  me  by  the  writings  of  the  Pro- 
phets and  Apostles  that  I  am  in  error.  As  soon  as  I 
shall  be  convinced  I  will  instantly  retract  all  my  errors, 
and  will  myself  be  the  first  to  sieze  my  writings  and 
commit  them  to  the  flames."  All  I  have  said  has  been 
only  after  a  careful  and  prayerful  study  of  God's 
Word,  and  a  study  of  the  history  of  the  world.  "He 
that  believeth  shall  not  make  haste."  Wait  on  the 
Lord.  Be  of  good  courage  and  he  shall  strengthen 
thine  heart ;  wait,  I  say,  on  the  Lord. 

H.  W.  FITCH 
Los  Gatos,  Cal. 


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